This has inspired me to look for motherboards with this CPU and possibly build a home system with it.

That CPU (actually a BayTrail-T) is specifically meant for hybrid/mobile environment: but you can look for some different ones, belonging to the same Silvermont series (such as those BayTrail-D/BayTrail-M/Avoton), even if no one among them can go as low as the 2,2W TDP BayTrail-T ones (and no one among them is that inexpensive!).

This has inspired me to look for motherboards with this CPU and possibly build a home system with it.

That CPU (actually a BayTrail-T) is specifically meant for hybrid/mobile environment: but you can look for some different ones, belonging to the same Silvermont series (such as those BayTrail-D/BayTrail-M/Avoton), even if no one among them can go as low as the 2,2W TDP BayTrail-T ones (and no one among them is that inexpensive!).

Thanks Quest for the info. It's a pity I can't get an Atom Z3740D CPU-based motherboard.I checked a few of the MB's you linked to.Quite a few are using the Celeron J1800/1900 series CPU's (Biostar, Gigabyte, ASRock).

How do these CPU's compare to the Atom Z3740D?To me they seem to be a completely different family/animal?

We are now at a stage where you can build a truly silent PC (not just pretend it's silent).

I built my first truly silent PC in 2008.

It was silent enough for a buddy of mine to sit two feet next to it while it was placed on the desk and with the side panel off (had been tinkering) without noticing it was running.

Hi Tim.Silence is all relative.I've been using PC's in a silent environment for more than 20 years now.How have I achieved this?By taking my already quiet PC and putting it in an adjoining room, running the cables through the wall.

Sure it's a bit of a hassle when I want to access some USB ports, CD-ROM drives etc., but the true silence I achieve in my working room is well worth it.

AFAIK no one. With reference to power draw maybe a quad core with 2Mb cache and 7.5W TDP, (N29X0/N35X0) but they have several different technical features. With reference to technical features, perhaps the J1900/J2900: to be fair, those latter just offer QuickSync as the Z-series Atoms, but they are even hotter than the N-series (TDP 10W vs Z3740D TDP around 4W).

AFAIK no one. With reference to power draw maybe a quad core with 2Mb cache and 7.5W TDP, (N29X0/N35X0) but they have several different technical features. With reference to technical features, perhaps the J1900/J2900: to be fair, those latter just offer QuickSync as the Z-series Atoms, but they are even hotter than the N-series (TDP 10W vs Z3740D TDP around 4W).

So how about my getting a spare Dell Venue Pro 8 (Atom Z3740D), connecting it to a monitor, keyboard and mouse and using it as a desktop?I can just pop in microSD cards when I need to add more disk space.

(I'm currently using an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS with Pentium-M CPU 1.86GHz and WinXP)

So how about my getting a spare Dell Venue Pro 8 (Atom Z3740D), connecting it to a monitor, keyboard and mouse and using it as a desktop?I can just pop in microSD cards when I need to add more disk space.

(I'm currently using an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS with Pentium-M CPU 1.86GHz and WinXP)

Set aside I don't think you can use an external monitor with it, but that tablet is, ahem, a tablet. So, from a desktop perspective, it's low on RAM, it's low on storage, and it's not expandable (not to mention it's low on performance). Does it actually fit your needs? I can't help about that.

On the other hand, I said there are no really close siblings, but most of the Z-series features are meant for tablets, so that a J1900 (if you need transcoding) or a N2910 (if you don't need the QuickSync feature) are more probably that not better CPUs than the Z3740D: just they can't compare to this latter with reference to heat (but they are low on heat too, when compared to desktop CPUs).

If I can take the liberty to say, probably you have to write down all your actual requirements, rather than trying to track down that specific Atom.

Set aside I don't think you can use an external monitor with it, but that tablet is, ahem, a tablet. So, from a desktop perspective, it's low on RAM, it's low on storage, and it's not expandable (not to mention it's low on performance). Does it actually fit your needs? I can't help about that.

Actually the tablet can be used with an external monitor/keyboard/mouse etc.But you are right about it being low on RAM/storage, not expandable etc.

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If I can take the liberty to say, probably you have to write down all your actual requirements, rather than trying to track down that specific Atom.

Yes you are right. I think I should look at the family of CPU's you mentioned and motherboards that house them. It's interesting though that many of them are soldered to the MB, something that us builders are not accustomed to.

But if I can find a CPU/MB that is in the 10W region I'd already be a step ahead of my current Pentium-M which has TDP around 21 Watts.

It's interesting though that many of them are soldered to the MB, something that us builders are not accustomed to.

But if I can find a CPU/MB that is in the 10W region I'd already be a step ahead of my current Pentium-M which has TDP around 21 Watts.

I think you can't compare your current combo with them: even a powerful Core i5 is so efficient that it should draw not so much more than it, if any, even with its nominal fourfold TDP.

Anyway, you can look also to some barebones, like the various NUCs/BriXs/Zboxes (which usually runs on mobile hw like your one), or some fanless options like the Shuttle XS35V4 (actually a Bay Trail J1900, a quad core 10W TDP cpu).

Anyway, you can look also to some barebones, like the various NUCs/BriXs/Zboxes (which usually runs on mobile hw like your one), or some fanless options like the Shuttle XS35V4 (actually a Bay Trail J1900, a quad core 10W TDP cpu).

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